{"id":848,"date":"2015-09-20T20:24:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=848"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:24:15","slug":"the-new-paradigm-in-health-care-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"The New Paradigm in Health Care &#8211; Consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison shopping has become the new norm for Americans, as they shift more toward self-responsibility for optimizing their use of the health care system. With support from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid in the form of accessible databases&#8211;like Physician Compare and Hospital Compare&#8211;individuals can play a more responsible role in managing their own well-being under this new paradigm.\u00a0Jill Daly of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette explores this new world in an article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/healthtoday\/2015\/09\/20\/Health-Care-Consumerism-Consumers-have-access-to-wealth-of-information-Vital-Signs-forum\/stories\/201509200005\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparison shopping has become the new norm for Americans, as they shift more toward self-responsibility for optimizing their use of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}